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Mother's Day roses and tiaras at Four Seasons Greenhouse and Nursery

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IGCs Get Creative to Avoid Holiday Burnout

When the holiday season is in full swing it can be hard to take a moment and enjoy it. Here, four independent garden centers share their tips and advice for avoiding holiday burnout themselves and... more »
5 Minutes with Jake Scott

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5 Minutes With … Jake Scott

Jake Scott is garden center manager at Piedmont Feed & Garden Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. What brought you to the garden center world? After graduating from North Carolina State University, I was a high... more »

Soaring Food Prices Inspire Home Grown Gardens

{Sponsored} Your customers want help to be free of high supermarket prices. They know that food prices are soaring with fuel costs rising. Food shortages are a reality for the first time for many Americans.... more »

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Snapshots of Spring

Tour four garden centers without leaving your desk! Here, we take a peek of what spring looked like at four IGCs around the country. Weston Nurseries Melissa Frank from Weston Nurseries in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, shared... more »
Dianthus Best Friends Forever

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Flowers to CAST Your Eyes Upon

“What is hip?!” funk band Tower of Power famously wondered in a song. It’s a good question. Everyone, from plant breeders on down to marketers and retailers, wants to know what’s hip. Whether it’s next... more »

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Top Retail Trends of 2022

The pandemic changed not only how customers shop — and how you sell to them — but has also brought forth innovative changes in retail. Financial services and digital payments company Block Inc. (formerly Square Inc.) partnered... more »
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Marketing a Cause: Dümmen Orange Supports Yellowstone Park with Petunia

Social responsibility in business has gone from important to essential. Customers are increasingly scrutinizing the companies they buy from — and want to know that their values align. Studies have found that 72% of Americans... more »

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Change Is the Only Constant

Did you know there’s such a thing as “change exhaustion?” (And apparently it’s not being sick of all the loose change rattling around at the bottom of your purse.) According to a 2020 scientific study,... more »

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The Dirt on Soil Amendments

Now that summer is here and the gardening season is in full swing, your customers will start asking about fertilizers and soil amendments to grow their best gardens. In order to suggest to them the... more »

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Milwaukee to Host Garden Center Show

The Garden Center Show for independent garden center (IGC) operators and suppliers is scheduled to take place Aug. 9-11 at the Wisconsin Center in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The show comprises an exhibit hall, keynote sessions... more »

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Succeeding Against the Odds in Uncertain Times

Our industry has been blessed with good fortune for the past two years. Unlike many of our competitors, we actually thrived during the pandemic. We had customers flush with cash from federal subsidies and very... more »

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Pollinators and Plants: A Research Update

There is no question that horticulture is beneficial to bees and pollinators. After all, the best way to support bees is to plant healthy and bee-friendly plants. For generations, professional growers of trees, plants and... more »